Vulnerability Report

CVE-2026-1659

Title: DoS via specially crafted requests (insufficient input validation)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2026-1659.

CWE Category CWE-770

Published Date May 14, 2026

Modified Date May 15, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.05%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2026-1659: GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.0 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service by sending specially crafted requests due to insufficient input validation.

Impacted Vendors

gitlab 1

Reference Links

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/05/13/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-3-released/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/588201 https://hackerone.com/reports/3519824

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2026-1659 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 15, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 14, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 14, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.